Word: mortalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circulation that is the cornerstone of his press combine. Soon the terrace is littered with newsprint that has been studied swiftly and as swiftly discarded. "Vines!" booms Beaver brook, and he begins firing orders to his private secretary at so rapid a rate that Vines, who is a mere mortal of 30 years, cannot keep up and sends for a tape recorder. Then off to London by air goes the latest batch of Beaverbrook commands...
Died. Phyllis Bottome (rhymes with got home), 79, British novelist and disciple of Viennese Psychologist Alfred Adler, who turned out 34 melodramatic novels, including two bestsellers of the 1930s (Private Worlds, The Mortal Storm), climaxed her career with an excellent biography of Adler; after a long illness; in London...
...literary level, The Leopard offers a magnificent interplay of ironies. Sometimes the satire strikes at the right: in one stunning vignette, Director Visconti (who in private life is the Count of Modrone) executes a mortal lampoon of the old nobility. The Prince and his family, after a long and dusty journey, go straight to church, and there the camera finds them grey with dust and incense and fatigue, propped in their gloomy niches like medieval effigies, like spirits of the dead come back to haunt the living. Sometimes the laugh is on the Left: at the Ponteleone Ball, which fills...
Here Shakespeare has pitted Nature against human nature. He has underscored the similarities between the two, between man and animal. The forces of good and evil appear in mortal combat; those of good succumb, but in the process those of evil destroy themselves as well...
Pope John's last illness set a mortal infection against a strong heart, which -as the world waited fearfully-pumped like a clock for three days after doctors gave up hope on Friday, May 31. A stomach tumor, with internal hemorrhages, had struck him earlier in the week, but it was the resulting peritonitis that now brought him near death. He lapsed in and out of comas, scarcely able to bear the pain that morphine could no longer kill. "My Jesus," he cried out in a lucid moment during his last ordeal. "Free me now. I cannot endure...